Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total representation, Harvard, of course, can only provide one-third. A majority of the Harvard quota will be filled with undergraduates exclusive of "Crimson" editors, and this fact alone should eliminate any fear of prospective attendants and Faculty that they will be "frozen out" by publicity-hunting gentlemen of the press. In many ways the H-Y-P Conference is unique in the advantage it offers to the interested undergraduate. It provides him with the chance to meet a highly representative cross-section of the leaders of our country. In digesting their empirical ideas he is better able to estimate...
...local chapter of the Red Cross received a telegram last Saturday assigning a quota of $4000 to this community; and on Monday, as it appeared that the flood would be the most disastrous in all our history, it has been asked that the fund quota be doubled--and to go as far beyond that as possible. In order to be able to secure this large sum, the cooperation of the members of the University is necessary...
...automobile bearings, tooth fillings, gun metal, tin foil. At the same time, in Brussels, the discreet and powerful gentlemen whose companies mined this tin were agreeing to extend for five years the cartel by which world tin production is determined. Set for the first quarter of 1937 were production quotas at what the International Tin Committee calls "standard 100%," practically identical with 1929 production (192,000 tons). Siam, which nearly broke up the agreement last year by demanding a bigger quota, came into line with an allotment of 18,000 tons yearly. Other annual quotas: Britain's Malay Peninsula...
Bumming is quite a trade around the Square of late. Yesterday two undergraduates were accosted by a well-dressed individual who announced that he made twenty-one dollars per week but would like two more dimes to help out this week, which, he avowed, was slightly behind on the quota...
Under the present ruling a House Master is allowed to fill 5 per cent of his annual quota with graduate students. Small as this percentage may seem, it equals one third of the men who are refused admission to the Houses each year. Although most of the graduates form a desirable element, and contribute a great deal to House activities, the fact remains that the Houses were built for the undergraduates, and they should be considered first...